The replication crisis definitely leaves a lot of room for questioning. However, even if all the studies we have were properly replicated we still wouldn't understand addiction perfectly. We still have a lot to learn, just look at how vague definitions of addiction are still http://www.dsm5.org/documents/substance%20use%20disorder%20f... But both addiction and learning involve the brain's dopamine circuitry; ironically when responding to your point I can't read the relevant articles I found because they are behind paywalls. This article has some interesting commentary but the sources are paywalled: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.10... Most likely there is a connection, but anyone who claims to understand it entirely at this point is overconfident.
Seriously, good package management makes a huge difference. Long term maintainability really benefits from a package manager that you don't spend hours diagnosing obscure dependency errors. I do not miss this aspect of developing in C# at all, even if it was great otherwise.
Fair enough, I have had to make sure I don't lose myself as an insight junkie. When it comes to the consequences are you thinking of it damaging our ability to seek out insights for ourselves if they are so easy to read?
That's an interesting way of thinking about it, in some cases there is overlap. Both do transmit dopamine and reinforce neural connections. However this is just one of many types of "addiction", so I think the relationship goes both ways with learning having the potential to be one of many types of addiction.
Psychology definitely needs a higher level of rigor in their studies. It is frustrating but you just have to pick apart the methodology more rigorously to be reasonably certain. Understanding how our brains work even at a rudimentary level is too useful to pass up.
If people fall for the click bait(they do), then they get more views from optimizing for it. It would be more surprising if an optimization algorithm for views didn't favor this.
Soluble corn fiber still needs more study, but then again their previous fiber source (isomalto-oligosaccharides) seems like it was worse given what evidence does exist.
People expect the sources to have some sort of marketing scheme behind them. Examine.com is the exception by having well researched suggestions backed with actual studies and a status of being a reliable third party. I understand their skepticism, because of how much learning it takes to actually do supplementation safely and effectively. Most supplements just help based on placebo effect anyway, I aggregated the supplement effects studied on examine.com and 50% of studied effects were neutral. Only 8% of the supplement effects they investigated were more than minor, the numbers can only get worse when you consider publication and selection bias! So there is good reason to be critical, because the odds are against supplements helping enough to be noticeable beyond what a sugar pill can do.
Thanks for being open to feedback, I know some people here are quite critical when it comes to supplementation suggestions and really anything medical. You clearly take the time to think and test this stuff out and improve your post, so I think this is something we could use more of!
If you are looking for ideas to protect yourself from depression http://examine.com is amazing. They back their articles with actual scientific studies on whether or not supplements work. Their articles on omega 3(e.g. fish oil), zinc, rhodiola rosea, and creatine are a great place to start for ideas to help deal with depression. I use all of these on a daily basis, and I found out why and how thanks to their suggestions. These are supplements that are safe and your doctor will likely support their usage as well when you ask them.
When it comes to disproof of course this is the case, as a single person my perception is limited. It also helps to be a bit more specific, because that level of salary is the minority for just the cash component. But once you include bonuses, perks, etc more people do get compensation like that.
Interesting. When it comes to rates though, my interpretation of your wording is a floor of 288k/yr (at least double what was mentioned in the post right?). From what I have seen you have to do specialty work to command rates that high.
It depends if you have enough capital to trade on that algorithm at scale. The more capital you personally have the more potential value you get from keeping it secret.
I agree if you are designing for a single operating system. The restriction isn't artificial if the software under design is multi-platform, since Windows for example doesn't work with colons in file names.
Machine learning is setting it up to find the correlations for you these days :p It is annoying when people choose things due to a more exciting name/buzzword rather than actual merit...
Especially given the cost! There are a lot cheaper ways to stimulate the vagus nerve. They could have spent more on implementing proper control groups and still saved money.
That coincides with what I have seen, those studies definitely made me and my friends curious. With better evidence I will definitely be trying tDCS for accelerating learning.
As long as people recognize the costs. It is painful to watch people try to solve a problem without looking into the costs of side effects. Because of hyperbolic discounting our brains are often prone to take the easier short term relief despite much higher long term costs.
Given that the human brain is full of electrical impulses it makes sense that external impulses can change our brains. The article mentions some people seeing the opposite results from the same protocol. It seems likely we will need more precise methods of stimulation to see better results given how complex our brains are.
Severe anxiety is painful for sure, but doesn't that seem a bit unnecessary? Given there are proven methods for treating anxiety such as medications, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapies, etc without such a high cost.
Perception is interesting, in this case some people perceive technology relativistically. If the technology isn't growing faster than its competition then it is dying. The author is a web developer after all.
The end of code seems like a title created by a sensationalist... I am excited for how these forms of pattern recognition and decision making can allow us to do more with software. There is still plenty of code to be written as we continue to apply software to every aspect of our world.